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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:43:23 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I printk <type> correctly?
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Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:34 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> It's in the C standard, which we don't try to put into Documentation/ AFAIK.
>>
>> section 6.5.3.4, The sizeof operator:
>>
>> 4 The value of the result is implementation-defined, and its type (an unsigned integer type)
>> is size_t, defined in <stddef.h> (and other headers).
> 
> Well, OK. I was more thinking about printing stuff like ino_t.
> UBIFS used %lu for this which was the source of warnings.

I've been thinking of adding (trying to add) Alexey's hints in the
Doc/ tree in some new file.

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~Randy
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